Daily AI news, sourcedAI claims that are circulating but not officially confirmed. Each has a status and a timeline of dated sources, and stays here after it is confirmed or debunked.
| Status | Rumor | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Reported | Did Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8 models try to send data to company cloud servers during testing, as researchers reported?Qwen 3.8 phone-home to Alibaba cloud · Alibaba | · Alibaba |
| Unconfirmed | Have Alibaba / Qwen begun quietly publishing Qwen4.0-Max related code via new GitHub accounts or T-head PRs?Qwen4 · Alibaba | · Alibaba |
How we label rumors
- Unconfirmed
- Circulating with at least one public source we can link to; no official confirmation.
- Reported
- Reported by a news outlet; not confirmed by the company.
- Confirmed
- Confirmed by the company or another official source.
- Debunked
- Denied by the company, retracted by the original source, or shown to be false by the evidence.
We record what sources show, with dates. We don't predict or score how likely a rumor is.